Just months after acquiring Lucasfilm in a multi-billion-dollar deal and announcing a plan to continue the Star Wars movie saga well into the future -- starting with "Star Wars Episode VII" in 2015 -- Disney has announced the development of a new animated series, "Star Wars Rebels," which is set to premiere in fall 2014.

The announcement comes on the heels of the studio's cancellation of the Cartoon Network's "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," animated series, a move that was made because the show aired on the rival network, owned by Time Warner.

Like Clone Wars, which took place between preque...

On Nickelodeon's hugely popular series Big Time Rush, Tanya Chisholm plays talent scout Kelly Wainwright - but in real life, she's a talent in her own right. BFTV recently chatted up Tanya to discuss the recently-premiered fourth (and possibly final?) season of BTR and her love of comedy.

Tanya's own star story began at seven, when she took the stage in a play. "I was the first person on stage and a spotlight came on to open the show and it was on me," she said. "I was just like, 'Oh my Gosh.' It was this overwhelming feeling of 'I want to do this forever.' It was awesome."

From that poin...

Funny lady Melissa Peterman is the host of ABC's new game show Bet On Your Baby, which offers families the chance to win money toward their child's college fund - depending on how well they know them. But isn't there that old saying about never working with kids on TV?

Yesterday, BFTV sat down with Melissa to find out what it's really like to be working with two- and three-year-olds, what we should look forward to in the eight episodes that make up the show's first season, and if her hosting experience on CMT's The Singing Bee taught her anything that she brought to the set of this new ser...

Ready to check out the latest DVD toon kid compilation…from an actual kid?  Then hold on tight as my 12-year old Will Coleman gives us the tot review skinny on the new to DVD "Phineas and Ferb: Animal Agents," out now from Walt Disney Home Entertainment.  The way of the Platypus is review revealed below!  

 

   

   

   Title: "Phineas and Ferb: Animal Agents"

   Grade: 3

   Director: Various

   Rating: G

   Runtime: 168 minutes

   Release Company: Walt Disney Home Entertainment

   Website: www.DisneyDVD.com

 

Best of the Twelve-Episode Set: 

Will’s Take – “My favori...

Nickelodeon has another new team of Power Rangers on the airwaves. Power Rangers Megaforce, which began airing on the network in February, picks up where Power Rangers Super Samurai left off, with new teenagers as the next versions of the popular superheroes. The current Pink Ranger is Emma Goodall, and she's played by model-actress Christina Masterson, who recently spoke with BFTV about joining the franchise and her own history with the Power Rangers fandom.

"Power Rangers has been a great opportunity for me," she said, "because through my character I'm able to reach kids and help teach t...

The Hub's Daytime Emmy-award winning animated series Transformers Prime is returning for its third and final season this month - and the network is celebrating with a VIP world premiere event that you can win tickets to!

The show rolls out new episodes on March 22 (4:30 PM ET/1:30 PM PT) with a new name, Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters, and a new adversary called the Predacons. According to the network's press release, "The final thirteen episodes will see Optimus Prime and his team face their greatest challenge yet in a new foe dedicated to the destruction of the Autobots - and potentia...

"There are a ton of new things that I'm very excited about. There's a lot of secrets and twists involved in the story," said Kelli Berglund, talking about season two of her Disney XD series Lab Rats, which premieres tonight. "Last season ended with Marcus trying to sabotage all of us and nobody knows why. Season two begins that storyline again, and you find out why Marcus is so evil, who he's working for and how it relates to all of us. There's some new characters that come into play. I think with season two, you kind of see the Lab Rats bond closer as a family. It definitely takes the whol...

He's back! Television's most awesome voice actor, Maurice LaMarche, is making things a lot more interesting in this week's episode of The Hub's Dan Vs. The battle is "Dan vs. Vegetables," and LaMarche is kind of all over it. BFTV spoke to him on Thursday about returning to the show, and who his favorite voiceover artists are.

"In this particular episode, Dan is appalled to find that his favorite burger joint has stopped serving french fries and has started serving broccoli. Albeit with a cheese dip, but still," quipped Maurice, who explained that he plays numerous roles in Dan's quest for ...

Today marks the season finale of The Hub's My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and it's literally a magical send-off! BFTV caught up with prolific voice actress Tara Strong, who voices the show's main protagonist Twilight Sparkle, to preview the episode and discuss the epic My Little Pony fan base.

What makes today's episode so great? "The ending's pretty spectacular," Tara explained. "[Twilight Sparkle] finally gets rewarded for her good deeds by this amazing growth and transformation." It's a plot development that was heralded by the special coronation concert that The Hub hosted last w...

The Hub is putting on an amazing event in support of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles this afternoon, February 9. The My Little Pony Coronation Concert is a "live musical event, interactive screening and sing-along" themed around the TV network's hit animated series, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

The event will be hosted by the reigning Miss America, Mallory Hagan, who joined BFTV yesterday to talk about the festivities and how she's working on behalf of children nationwide.

"It's going to be a lot of fun," she said. "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic really represents the ideals t...